Oh, I'm sorry.I thought that our date was next Tuesday. But ...but... I have already made other plans for tonight but you can come along if you wish.You may find the seminar interesting. It is called "Keeping the Details Straight in our Heads".

SAPERE AUDE!

If I thought that everything I did was determined by my circumstancse and my psychological condition, I would feel trapped.

What we take ourselves to be doing when we think about what is the case or how we should act is something that cannot be reconciled with a reductive naturalism, for reasons distinct from those that entail the irreducibility of consciousness. It is not merely the subjectivity of thought but its capacity to transcend subjectivity and to discover what is objectively the case that presents a problem....Thought and reasoning are correct or incorrect in virtue of something independent of the thinker's beliefs, and even independent of the community of thinkers to which he belongs.

Oh, I'm sorry.I thought that our date was next Tuesday. But ...but... I have already made other plans for tonight but you can come along if you wish.You may find the seminar interesting. It is called "Keeping the Details Straight in our Heads".

Oh, I'm sorry.I thought that our date was next Tuesday. But ...but... I have already made other plans for tonight but you can come along if you wish.You may find the seminar interesting. It is called "Keeping the Details Straight in our Heads".

I waited! Couldn't find the seminar.

No problem. There is another seminar which I shall be attending this coming Saturday. Feel free to call me and we will set something up. It's called Procrastination. Stephen King will be the guest speaker. His opening statement will be "“You've got to go to Boston, and you've got to go there NOW!!” lol

N.B.: This is not real, of course.

SAPERE AUDE!

If I thought that everything I did was determined by my circumstancse and my psychological condition, I would feel trapped.

What we take ourselves to be doing when we think about what is the case or how we should act is something that cannot be reconciled with a reductive naturalism, for reasons distinct from those that entail the irreducibility of consciousness. It is not merely the subjectivity of thought but its capacity to transcend subjectivity and to discover what is objectively the case that presents a problem....Thought and reasoning are correct or incorrect in virtue of something independent of the thinker's beliefs, and even independent of the community of thinkers to which he belongs.

derleydoo wrote:Hmmm! Arc, I wonder... At what point does a lack of free-will become procrastination? Or, vice versa?

Keep wondering. It so enhances one's life.

There is a point, when one experiences a lack of free-will, emotionally and mentally, where they "freeze up". It is at this point where procrastination comes into the picture -- unless one is able to transcend or plow through that "freezing" point.

Then it is a good thing to peddle back and try to reflect on what it was which caused that. There is always something which causes it and we might be quite surprised at the trigger.

Enjoy the wonder of it all...

SAPERE AUDE!

If I thought that everything I did was determined by my circumstancse and my psychological condition, I would feel trapped.

What we take ourselves to be doing when we think about what is the case or how we should act is something that cannot be reconciled with a reductive naturalism, for reasons distinct from those that entail the irreducibility of consciousness. It is not merely the subjectivity of thought but its capacity to transcend subjectivity and to discover what is objectively the case that presents a problem....Thought and reasoning are correct or incorrect in virtue of something independent of the thinker's beliefs, and even independent of the community of thinkers to which he belongs.